Major cruise companies avoid the Black Sea ports due to the uncertain geopolitical situation after the annexation of Crimea,Portseurope.com announced. Only two cruise ships visited Bulgarian ports in 2017. In 2018 there were no visits at all. The expectations for the summer of 2019 are for one visit only. 2014 was the last strong year for the cruise tourism in the Black Sea, Portseurope.com notes. In 2014 Bulgaria’s biggest port Varna was visited by 36 cruise ships with 30,000 passengers.
A State Aviation Operator crew is standing by to fly to Lebanon as soon as the phased evacuation of the Bulgarians there is given a green light. This was reported to caretaker PM Dimitar Glavchev on Monday morning at a Council of Ministers meeting..
The speculations of a rise in the price of sunflower oil in the coming months due to the poor harvest in the country will not come to pass, Vladimir Ivanov, chairman of the Commodity Exchange and Wholesale Markets State Commission said for the BNR...
A police operation was launched early this morning on the territory of Burgas against vote-buying. The operation aims to guarantee the normal process of voting at the early election for parliament on 27 October. Police are checking private..
Bulgaria has begun evacuating our fellow citizens who expressed a desire to leave Beirut following Israel's attacks on Lebanon. Some of the Bulgarians..
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly..
''The second evacuation flight from Lebanon will be carried out today around noon, provided the circumstances are favorable'', caretaker Premier Dimitar..
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